Actress Sandra Dee(April 23, 1942 – February 20, 2005) She began her career as a model and progressed to film. Dee won a Golden Globe Award in 1959 as one of the year’s most promising newcomers, and over several years her films were popular. By the late 1960s her career had started to decline, and a highly publicized marriage to Bobby Darin ended in divorce. She rarely acted after this time, and her final years were marred by illness; she died as a result of renal failure.